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"graduation speech" is a speech given by an individual during a graduation ceremony. It is typically meant to inspire and motivate the graduating students, offering advice and reflecting on their accomplishments.
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Here's my list of the most insightful, imaginative, or historical
graduation speeches ever given by entrepreneurs and other leaders.
Nearly two decades later, I remember that speech distinctly, and it got me thinking about some
other graduation speeches that were memorable for better reasons.
The brilliant Maya Rudolph sends up the traditional
graduation speech at Tulane University in 2015, complete with impressions of Oprah Winfrey and Beyonce.
CNN: Health secretary addresses health care, religious freedom in protested
graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedom.
Our speech was probably as unmemorable as your average student -
delivered graduation speech: full of stammers and stutters, creatively bankrupt.
He is an accomplished clarinetist now, and every time he performs at his recitals, and when he gave the 8th
grade graduation speech, the tears slip out and I melt.
Like in his high
school graduation speech, Ryan did focus on the discussion of time once again, but not through a series of quotes.
The best
graduation speeches last the test of time, offering wisdom and insight that is just as helpful to a 21 - year - old as to someone at the peak of their career.
As Apple's Tim Cook said in his 2015 George Washington
University graduation speech, «It's about finding your values and committing to them.
And so, with that in mind, below you will find some of our favorite quotes from
college graduation speeches of 2017 — whether these speak directly to your career aspirations, or more broadly to your approach to life, we are confident that taking these quotes to heart can help all students and grads in their personal and professional lives.
The end of school is near, and it's time for that springtime tradition of long - winded
uplifting graduation speeches and heartfelt off - key renditions of the Star Spangled Banner.
The Girls Hour peaks with her
marvelous graduation speech in which she urges the graduates to «think about how you see yourself and not how everyone else thinks about you.»
«It encourages a more egalitarian approach to valuing the education of every student,» said MaryJo Yannacone, principal of Strath Haven High School in Wallingford, which has never used rank and allows all students to
submit graduation speeches, with the winners selected by class officers.
A handful of students protested Vice President Mike Pence's
graduation speech at Notre Dame, while other students in attendance booed.
Stephen Colbert's parody
of graduation speeches is spot - on — he delivers such timeless advice as «Get Amazon Prime» and «Keep meticulous track of those who have wronged you.»
So when Aguilar's homeroom teacher asked her to give the sixth -
grade graduation speech, the 11 - year - old wrote it the way she had every other school assignment: in English.
And if so moved, write a
virtual graduation speech to the class of 2099 at the university you attended and send it to my blog or post it here.
Bestselling author J.K. Rowling's 2008 speech at Harvard often makes all the lists of
best graduation speeches — she speaks frankly about her own experiences with the benefits of failure and the power of imagination.
It was «accounting software with no [traditional] accounting in it,» Cook explained during
his graduation speech to Harvard Business School's Class of 2015.
In
his graduation speech at Harvard, the Facebook CEO said it is the next generation's responsibility to build a better world.
Even more, his classmates elected for him to receive the Executive MBA Distinguished Service Award and deliver
the graduation speech.
In 2005, Steve Jobs gave
the graduation speech at Stanford University, and delivered one of the best commencement addresses of all time.
Blankfein spoke about his humble beginnings growing up in housing projects in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn at
a graduation speech at LaGuardia Community College two years ago.
Joshua Phillips, a first year medical student at Georgetown, is looking forward to
the graduation speeches.
The consensus that religion is fine — and even helpful for and school's PR, so it may be viewed as inclusive — as an idea but that religion qua religion is dangerous at school is what leads to protests like that of the young man who ripped up
his graduation speech to recite the Lord's prayer in defiance of school policy.
I wrote
my graduation speech at her desk and ran to her office when I found out about my college scholarship.
I imagined it was something that once hung on the walls of Cena's elementary school gymnasium, but when I Googled the quote, I found out that it's from
a graduation speech Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan gave in Maharashtra, India, on May 30, 2016.
We were speaking together because we wanted to and because my school didn't care about grades when it came to
graduation speeches.
De Blasio, meanwhile, refused to discuss the derailment as he walked into a Bronx school to give
a graduation speech Tuesday afternoon.
Lawyer David Boies, who argued against Prop 8 at the Supreme Court, will deliver NYU's
graduation speech.
President Obama delivered
the graduation speech at West Point Wednesday, and with it, a foreign policy change of direction.
«Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding,» she said in
a graduation speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
During the valedictorian's (Paul Rust)
graduation speech, he loses his filter, lets people know his real thoughts, and Beth Cooper (Hayden Panettiere) gets the titular declaration.
When a geeky high - school valedictorian throws caution to the wind by expressing his love for a popular cheerleader during
his graduation speech, life finally starts to get interesting in this coming - of - age comedy adapted from the book by journalist / author / screenwriter Larry Doyle.
The story begins with Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza), the valedictorian of her high school, being jeered off the stage near the beginning of
her graduation speech.
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